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CIGAR COLORING MACHINE.

Patented Feb.2'7, 1883.

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FREDERIO STILES, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB OF ONE- HALF TOEDWARD L. BENNETT, OF SAME PLACE.

CIGAR-COLORING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,185, dated February27, 1883,

I Application filed August 19, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERIc STILEs, ofBinghamton, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cigar- Ooloring Machines, of which the following is aspecification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.-

My invention relates to improvements in machines for coloring cigars,and its object is to provide a machine whereby the cigars may be rapidlycolored to suit the demands of the market; and the novelty consists inthe construction of the same,as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters of reference indicate likeparts of the invention. v

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved cigarcoloring machine; Fig.2, a similar view, showing the opposite side with the driving-pulley;and Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the front of the machine.

0 G are standards secured. to a bench or table by screws 0 c. y In thesestandards 0 O are supported two pairs of arbors, DD D D boxes, A A, canbe vertically adjusted by means of the thumb-screws B B, which operatein the usual manner. On the end of each upper arbor is fastened agear-wheel, E, and the lower gears, 0, receive motion from theintermediate gear, F, secured to the shaft G and driven by the .pulleyG. The arbors D I) are so located that their respective gears mesh andare connected with and driven by the gear F. By this arrangement thegears e E, turning in opposite directions, cause the cigars placedbetween their sponges to be fed through the first pair of said sponges,which contain the coloring-matter, and then pass them on to the secondpair of dry sponges, which will absorb any surpluscoloring-liquid thatmay be on the cigars. The sponges thus arranged will readily yield tothe shape of the cigars and color them uniformly from the smallerto thelarger end without injury thereto.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

In a machine for coloring cigars, the combination, with a pair ofrevolving sponges con taining coloring-matter, between which the cigarsare passed, and a pair of revolving dry sponges, between which thecigars are subsequently passed, of mechanism for revolving said sponges,substantially as set forth.

. FREDERIO STILES.

Witnesses:

W. H. HEGOXE, E. L. BENNETT.

